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Break building During Winter Break, SU will
Fashion schmashion? Vicki Ho disregards the
Extending a hand SU students follow a trend of
Seeing green No. 8 Syracuse gets its biggest victory
begin construction on the new DPS Communications Center. Page 3
fluff image that has been representative of the fashion industry. Page 5
getting involved in volunteer opportunities abroad. Page 11
of the season so far with a 72-58 triumph over No. 7 Michigan State at Madison Square Garden. Page 20
Buses see delays due to snow By Dara McBride ASST. NEWS EDITOR
Two buses were stuck in snow on South Campus early Wednesday morning, said Puba Powell, a Centro bus driver. This, along with other weather concerns, left students waiting for the bus at College Place for more than an hour. The buses were stuck on Winding Ridge and at the Skyhalls, Powell said. He was driving the Winding Ridge bus, which fishtailed off the road into a ditch, he said. No students were injured. Neither bus had visible damage. It would help if the roads were cleared better and salted, Powell said. Students at College Place waited for at least an hour, and the bus arrived at 2:58 a.m. Danielle Lemon, a sopho-
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danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor ROBERT MCCLURE , professor of political science, is retiring at the end of the semester after 41 years at Syracuse University. During his time at SU, McClure observed traditional values both in and out of the classroom and practiced an in-your-face lecture style.
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By Beckie Strum NEWS EDITOR
ozens of handwritten thank you notes — this is something Ann Wicks remembers from her two years working as Robert McClure’s
secretary. “He believes in the importance of the handwritten thank you note,” she said. “He is very traditional in this sort of way.” But McClure will leave more than an obsession with decorum and good manners when he retires from 41 years of service as a professor and administrator at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at the end of the semester. He will leave a legacy of contributions marked by his old-fashioned — some say outdated
Professor leaves 41-year legacy built on oldfashioned values — approach to everything, from teaching to dressing for work. “I am basically most comfortable in the 18th century and maybe the 19th century. I chafe at the 20th century, and I am wholly unsuited for the 21st century,” McClure said. Computers, cell phones or PowerPoint presentations are nowhere to be seen in McClure’s lectures. Nor is tardiness, for that matter, because the door will be locked. All he brings to class are his lecture notes, chalk tucked away in his back pocket and a host of questions aimed at unsuspecting students. His in-your-face style of winding through the aisles has made him infamous among students who do not like to participate. But it SEE MCC LUR E PAGE 6
Grant to help recruit female professors By Jon Harris and Dara McBride THE DAILY ORANGE
Mollie Manier has applied to two professorial positions in the biology department at Syracuse University and at many others institutions, such as the University of Southern California and Lehigh University. Her ideal career is one in which she could teach undergraduate students and continue to pursue research in biology. But a full-time job in the sciences is easier said than done for Manier, a mother of a 9-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy and a post-doctorate researcher on evolution and sexual selection at SU.
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